Wyn Davies (conductor)

Wyn Davies (conductor)

Wyn Davies (born in South Wales) is a Welsh conductor.After graduating from Christ Church, Oxford, Davies joined the Welsh National Opera as a Staff Conductor in 1974. From 1987, Davies spent two years as assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, New York and undertook two winter seasons for the Banff Centre for the Performing Arts in Canada which included the 1989 award-winning production of Weill's Threepenny Opera in Toronto.

In 2005 Davies was appointed director of music to New Zealand Opera [ [http://www.aucklandphil.co.nz/index.php/ps_pagename/conductor/pi_artistid/74 Auckland Philharmonic] ] . In Britain he regularly conducts at the Buxton Festival, with the Hallé Orchestra and for Opera North.


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